{"id":213894,"date":"2025-05-13T05:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/two-exoplanets-discovered-orbiting-sun-like-star"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:16:49","slug":"two-exoplanets-discovered-orbiting-sun-like-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/two-exoplanets-discovered-orbiting-sun-like-star","title":{"rendered":"Two exoplanets discovered orbiting sun-like star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-exoplanets-discovered-orbiting-sun-like-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.00898\" target=\"_blank\">research paper<\/a> published May 1 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> pre-print server.<\/p>\n<p>To date, NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has identified more than 7,600 candidate exoplanets (TESS Objects of Interest, or TOI), of which 622 have been confirmed by follow-up observations. The satellite\u2019s main aim is to complete a survey of about 200,000 of the nearest brightest stars, searching for transiting exoplanets\u2014from small, rocky worlds to gaseous giants.<\/p>\n<p>HD 35,843, or TOI 4,189, is a metal-poor G-dwarf star with a radius of approximately 0.9 solar radii and mass comparable to that of the sun. TESS observed this star between 2018 and 2022, which resulted in the detection of a transit signal in its light curve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a research paper published May 1 on the arXiv pre-print server. To date, NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has identified more than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}